[texbirds] Re: 30 minutes with a starling
- From: Martin Hagne <martinhagne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Fred_Collins@xxxxxxxx" <Fred_Collins@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:54:35 -0600
Referring to Fred's Blue Jay doing Ivory-billed Woodpecker calls in 2007... The
Blue Jays at Cache River in AR in winter of 2006 made perfect IBWO calls!! A
call passed down generations that became a regular call or...
Martin Hagne
Bandera, TX
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> On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:06 PM, "Collins, Fred (Commissioner Pct. 3)"
> <Fred_Collins@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And then there was the Blue jay doing a perfect imitation of an Ivory-billed
> Woodpecker in Nacogdoches, TX in 2007. When and where did he learn that!
>
>
> Fred Collins, Director
> Kleb Woods Nature Center
> 20303 Draper Road,Tomball TX 77377
>
> Harris County Precinct 3
> Steve Radack Commissioner
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: texbirds-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:texbirds-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jim Sinclair
> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 4:19 PM
> To: Clay Taylor
> Cc: heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [texbirds] Re: 30 minutes with a starling
>
> At least that was the same continent.
> Back in the mid '90's at the Tulsa Zoo a Northern Mockingbird would regularly
> imitate a European Blackbird! The zoo had no record of that species ever
> being at the zoo.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Clay Taylor
> <Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Last year I was in Cape May, NJ, and a Starling on the wires did a perfect
>> "wit-weet!" of a Curve Billed Thrasher. There were two other birders
>> present, and we all looked at each other in amazement. I shouted at the
>> Starling "WHERE did you hear THAT?"
>>
>> It would not tell me.....
>>
>> Clay Taylor
>> Calallen (Corpus Christi) TX
>> Clay.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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>>> On Jan 18, 2014, at 12:21 PM, "Heidi Trudell"
>>> <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Matt and I were loitering in front of the library this morning and
>>> noted that only ONE native bird was detectable during that time: a
>>> Ruby-crowned Kinglet. House Sparrows, Eurasian Collared Doves, Rock
>>> Pigeons (high count for the year: four), and Eurasian Starlings all
>>> put on a good show. Chickens were heard only.
>>>
>>> We're still debating whether or not the Curve-billed Thrasher and
>>> Common Nighthawk calls came from another starling, but here's what
>>> one starling had to say (not in any particular order):
>>> Killdeer - most frequent non-starling vocalization Scaled Quail
>>> Ladder-backed Woodpecker (?) tapping wren spp.
>>> Northern Mockingbird scold call
>>> ...yesterday it was making curlew vocalizations.
>>>
>>> There are a few other snippets that it is mumbling to itself that
>>> sound promising, but I guess we'll have to wait for it to belt them
>>> out at an audible level.
>>>
>>> Happy trails,
>>> -h
>>>
>>> Heidi Trudell
>>> Marathon, TX
>>>
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